Category: Security, Defense and Space
As the flight director said last night, the third time is a charm. On August 28 at 10:59pm CDT, the space shuttle Discovery lifted off from the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This launch marked the 25th anniversary of Discovery’s maiden flight. Mission STS-128 will take Discovery to
NASA has again postponed the launch of Discovery. The launch is now planned for Friday August 28th at 11:59 PM EDT. A news conference is planned for later today and should provide more information into the latest delay.
A news conference was held by NASA this evening. As suspected earlier, this morning’s launch was halted because instrumentation did not indicate that an eight inch liquid hydrogen fill/drain valve was fully closed and they were not able to confirm its position. These valves are typically replaced every 16 missions and would
**UPDATED** Because of a valve problem, the launch of Discovery has been scrubbed for a second time. NASA reported on their blog: “Discovery’s Aug. 26 launch attempt was called off Tuesday evening after a problem developed with a liquid hydrogen fill-and-drain valve inside Discovery’s aft compartment.” A post-scrub news conference
The launch of Space Shuttle Discovery scheduled for today has been scrubbed due to poor weather conditions at Kennedy Space Center. The launch will be attempted again at 1:10:22 AM EDT on Wednesday.
NASA has announced that Space Shuttle Discovery will launch on Tuesday August 25th at 1:36 AM from the Kennedy Space Center. STS-128 is a 14 day mission to the International Space Station to deliver the logistics module and an experiment support stucture carrier. Maintenance work and experiments will also be
July 16th marks the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission to the moon. If you’d like to hear the mission in real time, it’s being broadcast from the Kennedy Presidential Library web site. The direct link to the mission page is http://www.wechoosethemoon.org.
The launch of Endeavor has been delayed until Monday, July 13th at 5:51PM CT. Weather conditions at Kennedy Space Center were of concern, prompting the delay.